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US Govt Office gives recipe to stem anti-dumping duty evasion
By TII News Service
May 28, 2012 , Washington |
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THE United
States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended certain initiatives
to detect evasion of anti-dumping and countervailing duties (ADD &CVD)
to improve protection of American industry as well as revenue loss to the Government.
The recommendations can prove useful to Customs Administration in other countries
as evasion of ADD and CVD through wrong declaration of origin of goods/transshipment
of goods/under-invoicing is a global menace.
In its recent report submitted to congressional requesters, GAO has recommended
that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should a policy and a mechanism
for information sharing among ports regarding the use of higher bond requirements
to check duty evasion and to minimize risk of “port-shopping” by importers
seeking to avoid higher bond requirements.
GAO has also recommended that that CBP develop and implement a plan to systematically
track and report on (1) instances of AD/CV duty evasion and associated data—such
as the duties assessed and collected, penalties assessed and collected, and
the country of origin, product type, and method of evasion for each instance
of evasion--and (2) the results, such as enforcement outcomes, of allegations
of evasion received from third parties.
It adds: “To enhance CBP’s efforts to address AD/CV duty evasion and facilitate
oversight of these efforts, and to help ensure that CBP receives the information
it needs from Commerce to plan its workload and mitigate the impact of the
liquidation process on its efforts to address evasion, the Secretary of Commerce
should work with the Secretary of Homeland Security to identify opportunities
for Commerce to (1) regularly provide CBP advance notice on liquidation instructions;
and (2) notify CBP when courts reach decisions on AD/CV duty cases in litigation.”
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